"My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man?..." JOHNSON. "... I think him one of the wor...st of men; a rascal who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been...." BOSWELL. "I don't deny, Sir, but that his novel may, perhaps, do harm; but I cannot think his intention was bad." JOHNSON. "Sir, that will not do. We cannot prove any man's intention to be bad. You may shoot a man through the head, and say you intended to miss him; but the Judge will order you to be hanged."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman... is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, theref...ore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think the question needs to be genderized. It would feel great to anyone. But whether you're a girl or a boy or a Martian,... you still have to go out and prove yourself again every day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as b...etter than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and ...hang me up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind Cupid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love is too young to know what conscience is, Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?... Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss, Lest guilty of my faults, thy sweet self prove. For, thou betraying me, I do betray My nobler part to my gross body's treason; My soul doth tell my body that he may Triumph in love: flesh stays no farther reason, But rising at thy name doth point out thee As his triumphant prize. Proud of this pride, He is contented thy poor drudge to be, To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side. No want of conscience hold it that I call Her "love" for whose dear love I rise and fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have not carried out experiments to prove it, but may I suggest that people in the theater and the cinema do not sit in the same... way? The theater requires attentiveness, and people must sit up alertly to see what is often a small area of concentration. Whereas in the cinema, the screen looms above us, and many people sink into reclining positions to watch. Some luxurious movie houses have seats that slide back to allow this posture. In the cinema we sometimes put our feet on the back of the row in front, loll across two seats, and damage the upholstery. Would this happen with a lively and commanding presence on the stage, or is it the result of a sort of loneliness in cinemas?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never wear my best coat on a journey, though perchance I could show a certificate to prove that I have a more costly one, at lea...st, at home, if that were all that a gentleman required. It is not wise for a traveler to go dressed. I should no more think of it than of putting on a clean dicky and blacking my shoes to go a-fishing; as if you were going out to dine, when, in fact, the genuine traveler is going out to work hard, and fare harder,--to eat a crust by the wayside whenever he can get it. Honest traveling is about as dirty work as you can do, and a man needs a pair of overalls for it. As for blacking my shoes in such a case, I should as soon think of blacking my face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »